Case and point (spotted on the ‘net)
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Another suggestion, this time submitted via Facebook. Our reader writes:
Nothing like naming your software company after a misheard idiom.
I have not heard this one personally, but a quick Google search (I searched for “case and point” in quotation marks) reveals a small, but troubling proliferation of this incorrect construction. Will it become the next mute point?
— Otto E. Mezzo
References: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/case_and_point
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-cas1.htm
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